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[Dovecot] Maildir permissions, shared folders & postfix
by Stroller 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi there, It's my understanding that shared folders can be implemented in the Dovecot IMAP server by simply symlinking one maildir to another, eg: $ ls -lan /home/DOMAIN/ned/.maildir/ total 40 drwx------ 9 10012 10000 440 Jan 9 04:23 . drwxr-xr-x 3 10012 10000 160 Jan 6 06:32 .. drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:21 .Deleted Items drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:32 .Drafts drwx------ 5 10012 10000 232 Jan 6 06:39 .Junk E-mail drwx------ 5 10012 10000 264 Jan 9 04:33 .Sent lrwxrwxrwx 1 10012 0 24 Jan 6 07:36 .Stroller -> /home/ stroller/.maildir/ drwx------ 2 10012 10000 336 Jan 9 04:23 cur -rw------- 1 10012 10000 268 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot-uidlist -rw------- 1 10012 10000 192 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index -rw------- 1 10012 10000 21504 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.cache -rw------- 1 10012 10000 1908 Jan 9 04:23 dovecot.index.log drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 new -rw------- 1 10012 10000 47 Jan 6 07:45 subscriptions drwx------ 2 10012 10000 48 Jan 9 04:23 tmp In the above configuration the user Ned has a mailbox "Stroller", in which he can read messages & stuff - I can log in as ned and drag & drop messages into this mailbox quite happily. I thought all was well with this type of shared configuration until I actually started to try setting it up for the info(a)ourdomain.com mailbox, and tried delivering messages to it. It seems that Postfix doesn't respect the permissions of the parent folder when delivering mail into it: # ls -ldn /home/info/.maildir/ drwxrwx--- 5 10021 10000 120 Jan 9 04:26 /home/info/.maildir/ # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/ total 0 drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:26 cur drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:33 new drwxrwx--- 2 10021 10000 48 Jan 9 04:31 tmp # ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 0 # cat HungUp.txt | sendmail info # sudo ls -l /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 # sudo ls -ln /home/info/.maildir/new total 4 -rw------- 1 10021 10000 1806 Jan 9 04:39 1136781544.V4804I3606cM633316.mail.domain.local How inconsiderate of Postfix to set secure permissions on the message it delivered!! I need the message to have 660 permissions so that others in the group can read it! At present this causes Squirrelmail to squeal & give nasty messages whenever a shared mailbox is accesses. Can anyone advise me how to resolve this, please? Stroller. PS: should you consider suggesting using Dovecot's "namespaces" type of shared mailbox, I'd be grateful if you could answer this first: http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2005-December/010459.html

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[Dovecot] POP3 only - why is cur/ growing?
by Wally Winchester 09 Jan '06

09 Jan '06

Hi, I use Sarge's dovecot for a pop3 mail collection server. IMAP is not used at all. It works well, but I would like to know why one of the accounts also keeps a copy of all e-mail copies in the cur/ folder? Thanks a lot, Wally -- Wally Winchester wally_winchester(a)fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The way an email service should be

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Re: [Dovecot] mbox assertion failure
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 18:56 +0000, Michael Stevens wrote: > Hi. > > I'm running 1.0alpha5 on FreeBSD 5.3. I'm using mbox mailboxes. > > I keep getting: > > Jan 8 18:53:12 saigo dovecot: imap(mstevens): file > mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion > failed: (start_pos < data_size) > Jan 8 18:53:13 saigo dovecot: child 88663 (imap) killed with signal 6 This happens all the time with one specific mbox? Could you send it and the index files to me? You could put the mbox though http://dovecot.org/tools/mboxcrypt.pl

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[Dovecot] Running dovecot-lda
by Linus Nordberg 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Hi, I'm planning on setting up dovecot with dovecot-lda, for sieve support. What does the list have to say about versions to use? I prefer stability over features but sieve has to be there. Does anybody use the combination dovecot 1.0 alpha5 and dovecot-lda 0.1 with success or would you recommend running -lda from CVS? If so, is there any point in time that's better than another? And, will dovecot 1.0 alpha5 do for -lda from CVS? Finally, are there any release plans for dovecot-lda that can be shared? Thanks, -- Linus

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. How do I compile the CVS version? "configure" seems to be missing. I tried downloading the snapshot from 20060105 but that fails make: ~ main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory main.c: In function `main_init': main.c:162: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_register' main.c: In function `main_deinit': main.c:206: warning: implicit declaration of function `dict_client_unregister' make[3]: *** [main.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/imap' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 The 20060107 snapshot won't ./configure : configure: creating ./config.status config.status: creating Makefile config.status: creating doc/Makefile config.status: creating src/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-sql/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-auth/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-charset/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-dict/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-imap/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-mail/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-ntlm/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-settings/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/maildir/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/mbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/index/dbox/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/subscription-file/Makefile config.status: creating src/lib-storage/register/Makefile config.status: creating src/auth/Makefile config.status: error: cannot find input file: src/dict/Makefile.in [root@www dovecot-1.0.alpha5]# make cd . && /bin/sh ./config.status config.h config.status: creating config.h make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' Making all in lib make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' Makefile:423: .deps/base64.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:424: .deps/bsearch-insert-pos.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:425: .deps/buffer.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:426: .deps/compat.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:427: .deps/data-stack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:428: .deps/env-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:429: .deps/failures.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:430: .deps/fd-close-on-exec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:431: .deps/fd-set-nonblock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:432: .deps/fdpass.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:433: .deps/file-cache.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:434: .deps/file-dotlock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:435: .deps/file-lock.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:436: .deps/file-set-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:437: .deps/hash.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:438: .deps/hex-binary.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:439: .deps/hex-dec.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:440: .deps/hmac-md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:441: .deps/home-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:442: .deps/hostpid.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:443: .deps/imem.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:444: .deps/ioloop-epoll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:445: .deps/ioloop-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:446: .deps/ioloop-notify-dn.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:447: .deps/ioloop-notify-inotify.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:448: .deps/ioloop-notify-kqueue.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:449: .deps/ioloop-notify-none.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:450: .deps/ioloop-poll.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:451: .deps/ioloop-select.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:452: .deps/ioloop.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:453: .deps/iostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:454: .deps/istream-data.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:455: .deps/istream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:456: .deps/istream-limit.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:457: .deps/istream-mmap.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:458: .deps/istream-seekable.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:459: .deps/istream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:460: .deps/lib-signals.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:461: .deps/lib.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:462: .deps/md4.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:463: .deps/md5.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:464: .deps/mempool-alloconly.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:465: .deps/mempool-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:466: .deps/mempool-system.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:467: .deps/mempool-unsafe-datastack.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:468: .deps/mempool.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:469: .deps/mkdir-parents.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:470: .deps/mmap-anon.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:471: .deps/mmap-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:472: .deps/module-dir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:473: .deps/network.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:474: .deps/ostream-crlf.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:475: .deps/ostream-file.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:476: .deps/ostream.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:477: .deps/primes.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:478: .deps/printf-upper-bound.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:479: .deps/process-title.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:480: .deps/randgen.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:481: .deps/read-full.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:482: .deps/restrict-access.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:483: .deps/restrict-process-size.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:484: .deps/safe-memset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:485: .deps/safe-mkdir.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:486: .deps/sendfile-util.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:487: .deps/seq-range-array.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:488: .deps/sha1.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:489: .deps/str-sanitize.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:490: .deps/str.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:491: .deps/strescape.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:492: .deps/strfuncs.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:493: .deps/unix-socket-create.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:494: .deps/unlink-directory.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:495: .deps/unlink-lockfiles.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:496: .deps/utc-mktime.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:497: .deps/utc-offset.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:498: .deps/var-expand.Po: No such file or directory Makefile:499: .deps/write-full.Po: No such file or directory make[3]: *** No rule to make target `.deps/write-full.Po'. Stop. make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/lib' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 It seems like the code is horribly broken. All of the nightly snapshots except for 20060107 (which won't configure) fail with "main.c:14:25: dict-client.h: No such file or directory" it does this for src/imap/main.c AND src/pop3/main.c . I tried commenting out any lines that had to do with "dict-client.h" "dict_client_register();" and "dict_client_unregister();" inside the two files and it would compile those files but it would fail in src/deliver claiming that it is too old? make[3]: Entering directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' ~ deliver.c:4:2: #error This program is somewhat out of date, use dovecot-lda instead make[3]: *** [deliver.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/deliver' make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/dovecot-1.0.alpha5' make: *** [all] Error 2 Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Documentation updates in Wiki
by Timo Sirainen 08 Jan '06

08 Jan '06

I started writing a new front page for wiki.dovecot.org: http://wiki.dovecot.org/NewIndex This is partially based on the comments in Documentation thread starting from here: http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-July/008076.html "A simple Dovecot installation" section is pretty much finished from my point of view. I hope it's clear enough for anyone wanting to install a working Dovecot server. Suggestions are welcome of course. You're also welcome to just edit the pages directly. I'll get email notifications of all page changes, so if I see changes that I don't think belong in there, I'll just remove them and maybe move them elsewhere (so don't add too much text without asking :). I'm not sure about what exactly should be visible in the front page. Currently there's probably too much. But I think it's better to show more than too little, so that new people can just look at the page and quickly pick up the interesting keywords without having to click through multiple pages. Maybe most of the sub-sections in "full guide" section could be listed only under those root sections. So that it becomes something like: * Starting guidelines * Authentication configuration * Mail configuration * Namespaces * Shared folders * SSL * POP3 * Dovecot LDA * Full configuration file reference * Examples / Scenarios I'd leave namespaces and shared folders there so that they can be easily found. I'm not sure where to put "full configuration file reference" or what exactly to call it. The same goes for Examples/Scenarios. Tuning should maybe be only part of "full guide". "Generic information about mail servers" is meant for discussion of mail server components, protocols, etc. without being too much Dovecot-specific. It's partially for "mail server newbies", but also would contain some "hard core" information about how things really work (mailbox format and user authentication especially). Anyway, if you have time please start adding the missing pages and writing to them. Even if you only give a FIXME-list that others can then fill out :) My school starts again at monday, and I'll be too busy to do anything else than that and work for the rest of January (after that only finals, yay).

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[Dovecot] fastbind patch -> auth_bind_userdn patch (attached)
by Geff 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Let me know how you like this one. This assumes one config parameter. The non-null of auth_bind_userdn overrides auth_bind = yes. I'm using this patch now on cvs head. Comments are always welcome. Thanks much, Geff

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[Dovecot] Questions regarding quota
by Stian Jordet 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I have some trouble trying to test the quota plugin. First off all, it says in the wiki: "Dovecot 1.0 supports quota using a quota plugin. It's currently discussed in Dovecot LDA page and it supports only very simple quota calculation which is suitable only for mboxes. Maildir++ quota support will come later." Does that mean that it won't work at all with Maildir++, or just that it's slow? Second; there are two plugins? One in src/plugins/quota and one ine src/plugins/imap-quota. What's the difference? Is one for imap-quota and the other for fs-quota? (I would love that!) But third and most importantly; I can't get it too work. I'm using CVS from tonight (which fixed the missing symbol bug). But neither when I'm using static userdb nor LDAP as explained in the wiki I can't get it to work. I'm not really sure of the getquota syntax, but whatever I try, I get: a OK No quota. So please, enlighten me! :) Best regards, Stian

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

I am resending this because I have not gotten a response in a few days. Help is appreciated! Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 17:50 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever > folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked > fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the > folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env > = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same > error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files > so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. > > Invalid mbox file error comes only if the first line of the mbox file > isn't valid. What does it look like? It should be something like: > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > 0.99.x Dovecot didn't accept broken From-lines either, but it might have > had slightly different logic in checking what's valid and what's not. Here is a sample file generated by postfix. Note: it is NOT censored or edited. What you see is the real thing. >From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18^M Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Received: from mail.fuelcellstore.com ([207.174.23.2]) by rwcrgwc55.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406013417.LNRM3313.rwcrgwc55.attbi.com(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> for <haroutetoot(a)attbi.com>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 01:34:17 +0000 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au [203.59.141.98] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id A64E1BA01F8; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:50:22 -0700 Received: from saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (10.0.0.13 [10.0.0.13]) by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2650.21) id 1KDV523W; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:25 +0800 Received: by saa01.saleebaadams.com.au (Microsoft Exchange Connector for POP3 Mailboxes 4.50.2113) with SMTP (Global POP3 Download) id MSG04062002-084518-2751.MMD@SAA01; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 08:45:18 +0800 Return-Path: <List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com> Delivered-To: saa(a)iinet.net.au Received: (qmail 28777 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:40 -0000 Delivered-To: saa-saleebaadamscomau-n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au X-Envelope-To: <n.juniper(a)saleebaadams.com.au> Received: (qmail 28767 invoked by uid 666); 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.fuelcellstore.com) (207.174.23.2) by mail.iinet.net.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2002 00:24:39 -0000 Received: from mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.48] by mail.revealmail.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.06) id AD4D1690192; Fri, 05 Apr 2002 17:11:57 -0700 Received: from jason ([12.81.167.50]) by mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020406001120.RBFM8815.mtiwmhc23.worldnet.att.net@jason>; Sat, 6 Apr 2002 00:11:20 +0000 Reply-To: fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com From: "fuelcell" <fuelcell(a)fuelcellstore.com> To: list(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Subject: FuelCellStore.com Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:11:08 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01c1dcff$8f6c5fa0$cacbfea9@jason> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.3416 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Importance: Normal X-Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Precedence: bulk Sender: List-owner(a)mail.fuelcellstore.com Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit X-IMAPbase: 1135543792 1 Status: O X-UID: 1 Content-Length: 150475 X-Keywords: Dear Fuel Cell Enthusiast,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com would like to tell you about several new fuel cell products and our redesigned website. ^M ^M * ^M One of which is the new 500W unit that is available for residential back up power, or remote low power primary needs. These units can be stacked up to 1500W and self-starts upon grid failure ~V provi ding critical power for nominal apparatus and remote applications. You will find a link to this product at www.fuelcellstore.com^M * ^M Bench Top Methanol Reformer capable of generating ultra-pure hydrogen from methanol and water for University and Research Labs. Please reply for more information. ^M * ^M A fuel cell powered remote control car with metal hydride storage. ^M ^M FuelCellStore.com has many new educational products and a new nav bar to help you find the products you are looking for. Please check out our Student and Teacher section at www.fuelcellstore.com/products.htm l^M Please let us know what you think of the new site structure and any feedback would be great. ^M ^M You have received this message because you have contacted fuelcellstore.com in the past and asked to receive FuelCellStore.com news. If you would like to unsubscribe from our mailing please reply to this mes sage with unsubscribe in the subject heading. ^M ^M Sincerely,^M ^M FuelCellStore.com^M PO Box 4038^M Boulder, CO 80306-4038^M Harout Hedeshian harout(a)hedeshian.net 720 - 261 - 3548

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Re: [Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Timo Sirainen wrote .. > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 19:17 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > Timo Sirainen wrote .. > > > On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 12:11 -0700, Harout S. Hedeshian wrote: > > > > > From someone@somewhere Wed Jan 5 09:03:48 2005 > > > .. > > > > From - Sat, 6 Apr 2002 04:07:18 > > > > > > How have you added the mails to the mailbox? Dovecot can't handle that > > > kind of a timestamp. > > > > Interesting... The dovecot 0.99 I was using was packaged with Mandriva. > Is it possible that they added support for that time stamp themselves? > My mailbox files get generated one of three ways: thunderbird, fetchmail, > and postfix. I used thunderbird to convert my Outlook files to mbox files, > and thats the one that I sent. Here is a sample timestamp from postfix: > > It worked with 0.99 only because Dovecot didn't check errors as well as > 1.0 does. So it just parsed those timestamps as being invalid, and set > the received-time of mails wrong. > > > > I suppose I could add support for it.. > > > > Unless you know of a conversion utility, I think that would be a good > idea. I don't want to edit thousands of emails for multiple users manually > in order to use dovecot. > > Dovecot's current CVS version supports that timestamp format. Okay. Thanks. I will try getting the CVS version. Harout Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] Passwd file location
by Tracy Phillips 07 Jan '06

07 Jan '06

Hi, I am trying to access my passwd file like this: passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/vmail/%d/passwd } Is that not possible. I keep getting an error when trying to login. I do not get much in my log files to help me debug it. Thanks, Tracy

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[Dovecot] FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands
by Michael Doppler 06 Jan '06

06 Jan '06

Hi, I am getting IMAP FETCH FLAGS in response to SORT and SEARCH commands for my INBOX. See the following transcript between dovecot (marked with S:) and an imap client (marked with C:) for an example SEARCH command. C: A004 UID SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL TEXT {4} C: test S: + OK S: * SEARCH 5 13 20 21 22 23 24 30 37 39 56 64 77 82 93 94 96 103 109 110 118 135 136 158 160 165 171 174 175 177 180 181 190 198 207 209 210 212 220 221 233 237 242 248 250 253 256 257 261 270 278 281 294 296 301 302 303 304 305 309 310 317 318 320 323 330 331 333 342 343 352 355 356 357 365 387 390 394 407 412 416 426 428 432 437 450 451 454 459 460 465 468 470 477 482 484 488 493 500 522 524 526 529 530 537 541 571 575 580 597 604 666 689 730 738 741 742 743 746 750 751 752 753 754 755 758 759 760 762 763 764 766 767 768 770 772 773 782 788 797 798 829 831 832 835 836 842 854 863 864 865 866 868 869 871 874 880 881 891 943 944 945 954 957 962 963 964 965 968 970 971 973 974 985 986 987 S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: * 307 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 381 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk $MDNSent)) S: * 971 FETCH (FLAGS (\Seen $NotJunk NonJunk JunkRecorded)) S: A004 OK Search completed Mozilla Thunderbird and Apple Mail seem to be able to cope with this, but squirrelmail chokes when it receives those flags. I get them only for my INBOX and not for other folders like sent mail, so the behaivour seems to depend on the content of the folder. It occurrs at least with dovecot 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5 using maildir. I have not tested other versions / mbox format. Is this behaviour expected? regards, Michael

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[Dovecot] Dovecot Version Numbers - Let's drop the Alpha?
by Marc Perkel 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

I'd like to make a suggestion. Let's drop the Alpha and come out with an official version 1.0. Here's my reasons. The 0.9x version are obsolete and people should be using the 1.0 Alpha versions which seem to me to do everything the previous versions did and more. It's as full featured and stable as all other IMAP servers and in my opinion is ready to be called 1.0. The "Alpha" label scares people off and with the 0.9x version being obsolete I think it creates confusion for new users. It created confusion for me when I converted to dovecot, and distros are less ,ikely to include versions with the Alpha label. Once you go to 1.0 you can start a 1.1 alpha series and finish it up. I know Timo has high standards but as a marketing issue I think that the Alpha label needs to go to get people to accept and use 1.0 in production. Thoughts? -- Marc Perkel - marc(a)perkel.com Spam Filter: http://www.junkemailfilter.com My Blog: http://marc.perkel.com

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[Dovecot] problems connecting to the Problems connecting to mysql
by Alfonso Fernández Vázquez 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi, I'm trying to setup a mailserver running postfix and dovecot with mysql as database backend. Postfix is already running and delivers mails just fine. Unfortunately, dovecot has great problems connecting to the database (using username + password). Found that two threads about the same issue but none of them solves the problem http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-April/006770.html http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2005-August/008394.html I am using: dovecot-1.0.alpha5 mysql 5.0.17-1 Please, can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Alfonso

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[Dovecot] Status of your Dovecot GSSAPI patch
by Fredrik Tolf 04 Jan '06

04 Jan '06

Hi! I saw your discussion on the Dovecot list back in October about a SASL GSSAPI patch for Dovecot. I'd like to ask what the status is on it. Are you still working on it? Thanks for your attention! Fredrik Tolf

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[Dovecot] Intermittent "Password Mismatch" errors
by dan＠ipws.com 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hello - I have had a problem the last few days with Dovecot reporting intermittent "Password Mismatch" errors for pretty much every client. Not all the time, maybe 1 out of every 10 connections. I cannot pinpoint where the process may be failing. I am using a MySQL backend to store user information in, and Dovecot queries that database directly. It works fine, but it seems as if Dovecot has a problem connecting to the SQL server for this information, instead of doing something smart, it just reports a password mismatch. I've turned on debugging and verbose logging, but I can't see exactly *why* the process fails on occasion. MySQL is tuned appropriately, and there's no reason why Dovecot cannot connect to the server. I'm wondering if anyone has seen this, and if so, what they've done about it. Because honestly, I'm lost. Thanks -dant

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[Dovecot] very slow imap opens in pine after moving maildirs to new drive
by Dave Lugo 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, I've been running dovecot-0.99.10 for the past several years, with virtually no problems. Lately, I noticed that the filesystem holding my users' imap maildirs was getting close to full. So... last night, I used tar to copy /var/spool/imap to a new drive (9G scsi, reiserfs) that I then mounted under /var/spool/imap (after moving the old dir aside). After the move, what would take pine a handful of seconds, with the load average barely breaking .40, now takes several minutes, with a load average spike to nearly 3. I must admit to being rather puzzled by this, as I would not have expected the move to result in worse performance. Do I need to figure out what the index file names are, and delete those? Any suggestions greatly appreciated - as even closing pine now takes nearly 5 minutes, whereas when dovecot talks to my old imap dir (I've tested this), closing the session takes no more than 10 seconds. server is Mandrake 9.1, 2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise, P4 2.6GHz, 1G RAM 9G U2W SCSI system disk, 9G U2W SCSI (and big*ss IDE drive for /users). Each of the scsi drives is on its own aha-2940UW controller. Filesystem on old imap location (/var filesystem) is reiserfs, same as that on new dedicated disk. Thanks much, Dave -- -------------------------------------------------------- Dave Lugo dlugo(a)etherboy.com LC Unit #260 TINLC Have you hugged your firewall today? No spam, thanks. -------------------------------------------------------- Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins.

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[Dovecot] fast bind patch for ldap passwords
by Geff 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

All, I'm not sure if I sent this in yet or not. Basically it works like this: if you set "fast_bind = yes" it overrides auth_bind. And requires that you set userdn. Example config: fast_bind = yes userdn = cn=%u,ou=people,o=dovecot I'm using the patch right now on the cvs head branch. Comments are welcome. Geff

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[Dovecot] another migration problem from courier with Outlook 2003
by Andreas Mimz 02 Jan '06

02 Jan '06

So I'm still trying to figure out a way to migrate from courier-imap to dovecot but I got stuck again... basically all of the clients are working now (more or less) - but when using outlook 2003 I don't see any email! the folders are there - just no emails! I think there's still a namespace problem somehow... I've attached the rawlog .in and .out files... when I select the Spam folder outlook tries to access "Posteingang.Spam" which should be "INBOX.Spam", shouldn't it?? my namespace config: namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix=INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } maybe anyone can help me out?! thanks a lot! aexd IDLE DONE tgr8 LIST "" "" qqvt IDLE DONE nlvq LSUB "" "*" wjll STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) yhuw STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) epjg STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) r2bz STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) 16iu STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) 3vki STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) dstc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) 64bl STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) gwa0 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) 31sy STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) u9fg STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) dypb IDLE DONE 4u5q LIST "" "INBOX" x8nb LSUB "" "*" dja3 LIST "" "INBOX" x40b LSUB "" "*" eg5t IDLE DONE mj6l SELECT "Posteingang" uj7v IDLE DONE 7w1o SELECT "Posteingang.Spam" zuyg IDLE DONE xsoy SELECT "Posteingang" kiuz IDLE DONE dx73 LSUB "" "*" 4qnd STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) 61vj STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) jhaw STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) x7t3 STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) gipp STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) cx56 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) yw81 STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) nx8w STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) 1nfc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) wf7r STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) 9y3i STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) al6r IDLE DONE fcd9 LSUB "" "*" dpxa STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN) 6fsv STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN) 8nyj STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN) lsnf STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN) gmym STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN) u7nd STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN) r8zi STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN) hrja STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN) 9keb STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN) iwfc STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN) 1pd6 STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN) bhfu IDLE * OK [RAWLOG TIMESTAMP] 2006-01-02 00:01:31 + idling aexd OK Idle completed. tgr8 OK List completed. + idling qqvt OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" nlvq OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) wjll OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) yhuw OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) epjg OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) r2bz OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) 16iu OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) 3vki OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) dstc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) 64bl OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) gwa0 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) 31sy OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) u9fg OK Status completed. + idling dypb OK Idle completed. 4u5q OK List completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" x8nb OK Lsub completed. dja3 OK List completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" x40b OK Lsub completed. + idling eg5t OK Idle completed. mj6l NO Unknown namespace. + idling uj7v OK Idle completed. 7w1o NO Unknown namespace. + idling zuyg OK Idle completed. xsoy NO Unknown namespace. + idling kiuz OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" dx73 OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) 4qnd OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) 61vj OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) jhaw OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) x7t3 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) gipp OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) cx56 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) yw81 OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) nx8w OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) 1nfc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) wf7r OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) 9y3i OK Status completed. + idling al6r OK Idle completed. * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Trash" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Sent" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Drafts" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Junk E-mail" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.treffer" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" * LSUB () "." "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" fcd9 OK Lsub completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Drafts" (UNSEEN 0) dpxa OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Gesendete Objekte" (UNSEEN 0) 6fsv OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Junk E-mail" (UNSEEN 0) 8nyj OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Sent" (UNSEEN 0) lsnf OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam" (UNSEEN 0) gmym OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler" (UNSEEN 0) u7nd OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.irrtuemlich Erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) r8zi OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.Erkennungsfehler.nicht erkannt" (UNSEEN 0) hrja OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.treffer" (UNSEEN 0) 9keb OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Spam.verdacht" (UNSEEN 0) iwfc OK Status completed. * STATUS "INBOX.Trash" (UNSEEN 0) 1pd6 OK Status completed. + idling

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[Dovecot] Using dovecot auth with Postfix
by Kim Culhan 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Attempting to setup smtpd auth for Postfix using the Dovecot authorization unix socket. Some info is at: http://www.postfix.org/SASL_README.html To enable operation when Postfix is chrooted, a method from the reference above is to locate the socket at: /var/spool/postfix/private/auth To do this, I have this configuration in dovecot.conf: # listener sockets will be created by Dovecot's master process using the # settings given inside the auth section auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd { } userdb pam { } socket listen { master { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! mode = 0600 # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = group = } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/dovecot-auth-master mode = 0660 } } } With this configuration Dovecot writes this to the log at startup: dovecot: Dec 31 17:04:32 Error: child 3536 (auth) returned error 89 dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: Auth process died too early - shutting down dovecot: Dec 31 17:25:34 Error: auth(default_with_listener): Unknown userdb driver 'pam' (typo, or Dovecot was built without support for it? Check with dovecot --build-options) Before modifying the setup for this auth function, pam authentication was working fine. Also, Dovecot will make /auth owned by root which Postfix considers a 'fatal' problem. Should it be setup to run as user Postfix ? Any help here is vy appreciated -kim -- w8hdkim(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] LDAP - authentication with bind vs. password attribute read
by Geff 01 Jan '06

01 Jan '06

Any word on this patch? http://www.dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2004-June/003867.html If not, I'll take a stab at it. Geff

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[Dovecot] invalid mbox files
by Harout S. Hedeshian 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hello! I recently upgraded from dovecot 0.9x to 1.0.5-Aplha and now when ever folders are opened (in IMAP), it keeps saying invalid mbox files. It worked fine in 0.99.x. It is detecting the right mbox files because it lists the folders and the subscriptions correctly. I am using "default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/mail/%u" in the config file, but I get the same error with "Detect automatically". It generates nothing in the log files so I am lost!! I tried both outlook and thunderbird but same results. Thanks for the help, Harout S. Hedeshian

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[Dovecot] alpha5: (message_body_search_ctx) assert
by Jeff A. Earickson 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, My second case of this assert, gdb analysis of the core dump attached. My setup: Solaris 9, dovecot built with gcc 4.0.2, mbox format, imap usage only. INBOX is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 system, index files are local. Syslog complaint is: imap(user): file message-body-search.c: line 414 (message_body_search_ctx): assertion failed: (input->v_offset == part->physical_pos + part->header_size.physical_size) Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] 1.0alpha5: fcntl() locking problem
by Jeff A. Earickson 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, My setup: Solaris 9, /var/mail is NFS mounted from another Solaris 9 box, home directories and dovecot index stuff is on local ufs filesystems. I upgraded from alpha4 to a5 about 36 hours ago. Dovecot is configured like so during the build: VERSION=1.0.alpha5 CC=gcc CFLAGS="-g -O" CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/openssl/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/openssl/lib \ ./configure --prefix=/opt/dovecot.$VERSION --with-ssl=openssl \ --with-ssldir=/opt/openssl/ssl > configure.out This afternoon dovecot basically locked up where a lot of people (including me) were getting: imap(user): fcntl() failed with mbox file /var/mail/user: No record locks available for syslog messages, and their mailbox operations would fail. In my case pine just closed the mailbox with an internal error. I did a quick fix by stopping dovecot, killing all dovecot processes, killing /usr/lib/nfs/lockd on the dovecot server, and restarting lockd. Ideas? Suggestions? Jeff Earickson Colby College

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[Dovecot] Bug with userdb prefetch
by Stian Jordet 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, when I'm (trying) to use userdb prefetch with ldap, it works fine for system users, but for virtual users without their own uid and gid, it won't work. I get in the log: Dec 31 01:34:47 buick dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(oddrun,127.0.0.1): userdb_uid not returned Dec 31 01:34:47 buick dovecot: auth(default): prefetch(oddrun,127.0.0.1): userdb_gid not returned Which means that the problem is that user_global_uid and user_global_gid is not used when using prefetch. That must be a bug? Best regards, Stian

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[Dovecot] can't switch off login debuggin
by Sebastian Bauer 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi there, I tried the change from cyrus to dovecot. This was just some days ago and I'm really happy. Just a little problem. For testing I switched on some login debugging. Now I can't switch it off. Dovecot seems to ignore the "no" in the config file. <snip> auth_verbose = no auth_debug = no </snip> That is what I get in maillog: <snip> dovecot-auth: pam_sm_authenticate called. dovecot-auth: dbuser changed. dovecot-auth: dbpasswd changed. dovecot-auth: host changed. dovecot-auth: database changed. dovecot-auth: table changed. dovecot-auth: usercolumn changed. dovecot-auth: passwdcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: crypt changed. dovecot-auth: logtable changed. dovecot-auth: logmsgcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logusercolumn changed. dovecot-auth: loghostcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logpidcolumn changed. dovecot-auth: logtimecolumn changed. dovecot-auth: db_connect called. dovecot-auth: returning 0 . dovecot-auth: db_checkpasswd called. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: where clause = dovecot-auth: SELECT password FROM accountuser WHERE username='XXXX' dovecot-auth: sqlLog called. dovecot-auth: insert into log (msg, user, host, pid, time) values('AUTH SUCCESSFUL', 'XXXX', '', '14813' , NOW()) dovecot-auth: Returning 0 dovecot-auth: returning 0 . dovecot-auth: returning 0. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: setcred called but not implemented. dovecot-auth: pam_mysql: acct_mgmt called but not implemented. Dont panic though :) </snip> I use dovecot-0.99.11-2.EL4.1 on CentOS. Hope someone can help me to stop these messages. Regards, Sebstian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDtcI90IZnttJ61yYRAhqYAKDC5DUvlNHR2o70gMWayBbJFr6oewCg8r5u hWlfTfsff1k67RLKq/P/xEM= =rlmj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[Dovecot] a problem in building dovecot @ opensolaris
by Sergey Ivanov 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, I'm trying to build dovecot from snapshot dovecot-20051215.tar.gz on OpenSolaris Nevada build 28. I have added to the PATH directories for make, gcc and automake/autoconf (in BASH): $ export PATH=/opt/sfw/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:$PATH then executed --- $ aclocal $ libtoolize --force $ automake --add-missing $ autoheader $ autoconf --- And then make finished with --- Install prefix ...................... : /usr/local File offsets ........................ : 64bit I/O loop method ..................... : poll File change notification method ..... : none Building with SSL support ........... : yes (OpenSSL) Building with IPv6 support .......... : yes Building with pop3 server ........... : yes Building with mail delivery agent .. : yes Building with GSSAPI support ........ : no Building with user database modules . : static prefetch passwd passwd-file checkpassword (modules) Building with password lookup modules : passwd passwd-file shadow pam checkpassword (modules) --- But make fails, the first error is: --- Making all in quota if /bin/bash ../../../libtool --mode=compile gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT quota.lo -MD -MP -MF ".deps/quota.Tpo" -c -o quota.lo quota.c; \ then mv -f ".deps/quota.Tpo" ".deps/quota.Plo"; else rm -f ".deps/quota.Tpo"; exit 1; fi gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -I/usr/sfw/include -MT quota.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota.Tpo -c quota.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota.o In file included from quota-fs.h:22, from quota.c:6: /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:81: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:82: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:83: error: parse error before '*' token /usr/include/sys/mnttab.h:84: error: parse error before '*' token *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `quota.lo' Current working directory /home/seriv/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/plugins/quota *** Error code 1 The following command caused the error: set fnord $MAKEFLAGS; amf=$2; \ dot_seen=no; \ target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; \ list='quota imap-quota trash'; for subdir in $list; do \ echo "Making $target in $subdir"; \ if test "$subdir" = "."; then \ dot_seen=yes; \ local_target="$target-am"; \ else \ local_target="$target"; \ fi; \ (cd $subdir && make $local_target) \ || case "$amf" in *=*) exit 1;; *k*) fail=yes;; *) exit 1;; esac; \ done; \ if test "$dot_seen" = "no"; then \ make "$target-am" || exit 1; \ fi; test -z "$fail" make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `all-recursive' --- Please, help. -- Sergey Ivanov

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[Dovecot] dovecot and ldaps://
by David Coppa 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi all, I've managed to get dovecot running with ldaps (ssl over port 636, not starttls). Btw, it's working right only if i specify "TLSVerifyClient never" in my slapd.conf. With any other parameter (like "TLSVerifyClient demand"), the bind fails with: connection_get(12) connection_get(12): got connid=0 connection_read(12): checking for input on id=0 TLS trace: SSL_accept:before/accept initialization TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 read client hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write server hello A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 write certificate request A TLS trace: SSL_accept:SSLv3 flush data TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate A connection_get(12) connection_get(12): got connid=0 connection_read(12): checking for input on id=0 TLS trace: SSL3 alert write:fatal:handshake failure TLS trace: SSL_accept:error in SSLv3 read client certificate B TLS: can't accept. TLS: error:140890C7:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate +/usr/src/lib/libssl/src/ssl/s3_srvr.c:2004 connection_read(12): TLS accept error error=-1 id=0, closing connection_closing: readying conn=0 sd=12 for close connection_close: conn=0 sd=12 Is there a way to specify, in the dovecot-ldap.conf file, where to look for the client certificate and key files? Or maybe make dovecot parse the ldaprc file under /etc? Best Regards, David

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[Dovecot] How to disable keywords?
by Sebastjan Trepca 31 Dec '05

31 Dec '05

Hi, is there a quick way to disable keyword feature in dovecot? Thanks, Sebastjan

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[Dovecot] Compile problem on FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE
by Kim Culhan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Trying to update to dovecot-1.0.alpha5 and seeing this at compile time: mech-gssapi.o mech-gssapi.c; then mv -f ".deps/mech-gssapi.Tpo" ".deps/mech-gssapi.Po"; else rm -f ".deps/mech-gssapi.Tpo"; exit 1; fi mech-gssapi.c:30:27: gssapi/gssapi.h: No such file or directory mech-gssapi.c:42: error: syntax error before "gss_ctx_id_t" mech-gssapi.c:51: error: syntax error before "gss_name_t" mech-gssapi.c:58: error: syntax error before "OM_uint32" [snipped] mech-gssapi.c:387: error: structure has no member named `authz_name' *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src/auth. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/local/src/dovecot/dovecot-1.0.alpha5/src. *** Error code 1 Any help is greatly appreciated -kim -- w8hdkim(a)gmail.com

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[Dovecot] dovecot+mysql login problem
by Mircea Stefan 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, This is my MySQL table: <snip> mysql> select username, password from mailbox; +----------+----------+ | username | password | +----------+----------+ | mircea | stefan | +----------+----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) </snip> When I try to login (pop3) I recive "-ERR Authentication failed." <snip> +OK Dovecot ready. user mircea +OK pass stefan -ERR Authentication failed. </snip> maillog: <snip> Dec 27 20:54:38 pluto dovecot: auth-worker(default): sql(mircea,10.13.15.2): query: SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'mircea' Dec 27 20:54:38 pluto dovecot: auth(default): client in: AUTH^I1^IPLAIN^Iservice=POP3^Ilip=10.13.15.1^Irip=10.13.15.2^Iresp=AG1pcmNlYQBzdGVmYW4= Dec 27 20:54:39 pluto dovecot: auth(default): client out: FAIL^I1^Iuser=mircea </snip> I started a mysql client and ran: <snip> mysql> SELECT password FROM mailbox WHERE username = 'mircea'; +----------+ | password | +----------+ | stefan | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) </snip> What's the problem? Thank you and Happy Holidays!

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[Dovecot] new user setup trouble
by Will Ling 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi again, I am still trying to run Dovecot but persistently get the errors Corrupted transaction log file and Lost transaction log file. I cannot find any reference to this problem that will help, I have checked the file permissions and locks and cannot see any obvious cause. Could somebody please advise what I might be doing wrong or direct me to somewhere else that I can ask for or find help. Below is some information about the problem. The log file show the following when I attempt to log in: Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up Info: imap(will): Effective uid=501, gid=501 Info: imap(will): mbox: data=/home/will/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap(will): mbox: root=/home/will/mail, index=/home/will/mail, inbox=/var/spool/mail/will Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip=10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x40, offset=24, size=0) Error: imap(will): /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will/mail/. imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 My config file contains the following un commented lines: protocols = imap ssl_disable = yes disable_plaintext_auth = no log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log info_log_path = /var/log/dovecot.log mail_extra_groups = mail mail_debug = yes default_mail_env = mbox:~/mail/:INBOX=/var/spool/mail/%u protocol imap { } protocol pop3 { } auth_verbose = yes auth default { mechanisms = plain passdb shadow { } userdb passwd { } } My file permissions are: /var/spool/mail/ -rwxrwx--- will mail 2797 Dec 29 20:37 will /home/will/mail drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 20:47 .imap/ -rw------- will will 19 Dec 29 20:47 .subscriptions /home/will/mail/.imap drwx------ will will 4096 Dec 29 21:07 INBOX/ /home/will/mail/.imap/INBOX -rwxrwxrwx will will 120 Dec 28 20:47 dovecot.index -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:07 dovecot.index.log -rw------- will will 376 Dec 29 21:04 dovecot.index.log.2 The .imap and everything in it is created when I try to login, the three dovecot.index are all completely empty. If any more information is required, please let me know. Regards, Will -- Will Ling

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[Dovecot] Dovecot index cache regeneration
by John Newman 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hi, We've been using dovecot in the lab now for quite a while and really like the results we're seeing. Underlying dovecot we're using maildir mailboxes. We have the need to manually remove maildir files from time to time. That is, by hand (we'll, actually by script) but not via imap or pop. Dues to dovecot's index caching (which I might add, we love most of the time) imap clients still continue to display the message once they're gone (as we'd expect). However, in this instance it's not what we're after. So my question is, what is the "dovecot recommended" way to force the index cache to regenerate. We really don't want to delete the entire index cache for a particular mailbox as larger mailboxes will then need to unnecessarily regenerate indices on unaffected messages. Many thanks for any tips you can provide. John.

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[Dovecot] dovecot INSTALL
by Tom Lee 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello, I just tried dovecot-stable-20051206.tar.gz. It takes me one additional day to get it work. >From INSTALL file, it failed to miss the following installation steps: 1) needs to create the file /etc/pam.d/dovecot 2) needs to create the directory /etc/ssl/certs/ and /etc/ssl/private/, configure doc/dovecot-openssl.cnf, chmod +x doc/mkcerts.sh doc/mkcerts.sh Not sure why it is not in the the file INSTALL. For pop3 client configuration, I wonder if it is OK for me to use: #outlook-no-nuls: # Outlook and Outlook Express hang if mails contain NUL characters. # This setting replaces them with 0x80 character. # oe-ns-eoh: # Outlook Express and Netscape Mail breaks if end of headers-line is # missing. This option simply sends it if it's missing. pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls, oe-ns-eoh or dovecot can only allow one such as: pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls Thanks. Tom

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[Dovecot] Dovecot - struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks
by Bob Gustafson 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

On, Fedora4 This is against the latest cvs update This was encountered during make, after doing ./autogen.sh ./configure --without-lda make gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../src/lib -I../../../src/lib-dict -I../../../src/lib-mail -I../../../src/lib-storage -I/usr/local/ssl/include -std=gnu99 -g -O2 -Wall -W -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wpointer-arith -Wchar-subscripts -Wformat=2 -Wbad-function-cast -MT quota-fs.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/quota-fs.Tpo -c quota-fs.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/quota-fs.o quota-fs.c: In function 'fs_quota_get_resource': quota-fs.c:208: error: 'struct dqblk' has no member named 'dqb_curblocks' make[4]: *** [quota-fs.lo] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/dovecot/cvs/dovecot/src/plugins/quota'

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[Dovecot] out of memory on dovecot alpha5
by Pavel Volkovitskiy 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Hello Once a day i have these errors in doveecot.log: =========================================== dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:04 Error: auth-worker(default): .Out of memory (Needed 52 bytes) dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:04 Error: auth-worker(default): sql(login,<ip>): Password query failed: MySQL client ran out of memory dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Info: imap-login: Disconnected: user=<login>, method=PLAIN, rip=<ip>, lip=<ip2> dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Error: auth-worker(default): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory dovecot: Dec 16 14:06:06 Error: child 23022 (auth-worker) returned error 83 (Out of memory) ============================================ And after that nobody can login I do /etc/init.d/dovecot restart and then it's working for a day Before upgrade to alpha5 i was used 0.99.x series without eny errros on this server What can i do to debug this? -- Pavel

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[Dovecot] LDAP authenticated bind support
by J.M. Maurer 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

Recently at Better.be we implemented LDAP authenticated bind support for dovecot. A patch against CVS HEAD is attached. I have not tested it against all possible configurations one can use, but the basic operation seems to be right. As documented in the patch, it adds one new option to the dovecot-ldap.conf configuration file: # Set "auth_bind" to "yes" if you want to use "authenticated binds" # as a login validation mechanism. NOTE: the pass_attrs option # will (naturally) be ignored if you enable this auth_bind = yes Authenticated bind support is implemented asynchronously. This involves 2 asynchronous calls: the first being 'ldap_search' to find the dn to bind against and the second being the actual 'ldap_bind' call. I'd love to hear some feedback on this. Regards, Marc Maurer Better.be B.V.

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Re: [Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..
by Adrian Vasile 30 Dec '05

30 Dec '05

wrote it and tested it. now it reconnects to mysql as it should. <snip> loki ~ # cat /usr/local/portage/net-mail/dovecot/files/db-mysql.diff diff -ur dovecot-0.99.14-orig/src/auth/db-mysql.c dovecot-0.99.14/src/auth/db-mysql.c --- dovecot-0.99.14-orig/src/auth/db-mysql.c 2004-12-19 07:25:15.000000000 +0200 +++ dovecot-0.99.14/src/auth/db-mysql.c 2005-12-27 15:43:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ case CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR: case CR_SERVER_LOST: /* connection lost - try immediate reconnect */ + /* but first close the connection :) */ + if (conn->connected) + mysql_conn_close(conn); if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) break; if (mysql_query(conn->mysql, query) == 0) { </snip> i suppose that v1alpha5 has the same bug.. addapt to needs Adrian Vasile wrote: > re,re > > I think I found the issue: > in this switch : > if (failed) { > /* query failed */ > switch (mysql_errno(conn->mysql)) { > case CR_SERVER_GONE_ERROR: > case CR_SERVER_LOST: > /* connection lost - try immediate reconnect */ > if (!mysql_conn_open(conn)) > break; > if (mysql_query(conn->mysql, query) == 0) { > failed = FALSE; > break; > } > /* query failed, fallback to error handler */ > default: > i_error("MySQL: Error executing query \"%s\": %s", > query, mysql_error(conn->mysql)); > break; > } > } > if this error occurs then reconnect.. this is true, but > static int mysql_conn_open(struct mysql_connection *conn) > { > if (conn->connected) > return TRUE; > .... > in the conn structure the connected bit is always true I belive. > > May I write the patch ? > > Adrian Vasile wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> It doesn't matter who's fault it is. I run Dovecot with mysql auth and >> it does the same.. >> the idea is that mysql has a timeout for connections so, after a period >> of inactivity it closes the connection. >> I don't know if Dovecot uses what the developers from mysql propose: >> if mysql_ping != ok then reconnect >> I didn't have time to browse the sources. >> >> The lazy work-around I made is modifying the pop3/imap monitor of mon >> and every 15 min, mon logs into dovecot >> with a test account :) >> >> It's the same problem with amavis but that's not necesarly amavis's >> fault but the DBI people. >> >> PS: I run : >> * net-mail/dovecot >> Installed: 0.99.14-r1 >> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ >> Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security >> primarily in mind >> >> * dev-db/mysql >> Installed: 5.0.17 >> Homepage: http://www.mysql.com/ >> Description: A fast, multi-threaded, multi-user SQL >> database server >> >> maybe using pam_mysql would solve this issue.. >> >> daniel petre wrote: >> >>> >>> i dont think its vpopmail's fault, since THIS running version is OKAY: >>> >>> delfix ~ # emerge -s dovecot >>> Searching... >>> [ Results for search key : dovecot ] >>> [ Applications found : 1 ] >>> >>> * net-mail/dovecot >>> Latest version available: 1.0_alpha5 >>> Latest version installed: 0.99.14-r1 >>> Size of downloaded files: 1,236 kB >>> Homepage: http://dovecot.org/ >>> Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security >>> primarily in mind >>> License: LGPL-2.1 >>> >>> >>> >>> Timo Sirainen wrote: >>> >>>> On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 02:52 +0200, daniel petre wrote: >>>> >>>>> dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql >>>>> error[3]: MySQL server has gone away >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> .. >>>> >>>>> anyone encountered this? >>>>> mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully. >>>>> what am i missing? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That error message is coming from vpopmail libraries, and it looks >>>> like >>>> it at least thinks it can't connect to MySQL. Looks to me like the >>>> problem is in vpopmail's side. There isn't really anything that can be >>>> configured for vpopmail from Dovecot's side. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >

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[Dovecot] postfix, dovecot, sasl deliver error
by Tracy Phillips 29 Dec '05

29 Dec '05

Hi, I am receiving an error when trying to send mail. I am using FreeBSD 6 and dovecot 1.0.alpha5 and postfix 2.3-20051223 which includes the dovecot sasl patch. I am getting: Dec 26 17:26:45 example postfix/pipe[612]: DC90D5C30: to=<tep(a)example.com>, relay=dovecot, delay=14, delays=14/0.05/0/0.08, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: Error: net_connect(/var/run/dovecot/auth-master) failed: Permission denied ) This is from dovecot.conf: auth default_with_listener { mechanisms = plain passdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/passwd } userdb passwd-file { args = /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users } socket listen { master { path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master # # WARNING: Giving untrusted users access to master socket may be a # # security risk, don't give too wide permissions to it! mode = 0666 # # Default user/group is the one who started dovecot-auth (root) user = virtual group = virtual } client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0666 } } } and from dovecot-deliver.conf: # UNIX socket path to master authentication server to find users. auth_socket_path = /var/run/dovecot/auth-master From postfix master.cf: # Dovecot LDA dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=virtual:virtual argv=/usr/local/libexec/dovecot/deliver -d ${recipient} from postfix main.cf: virtual_mailbox_domains = /usr/local/etc/postfix/vhosts.txt virtual_mailbox_base = /usr/local/var/spool/vmail virtual_mailbox_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/vmaps.txt virtual_uid_maps = static:1003 virtual_gid_maps = static:1003 virtual_alias_maps = hash:/usr/local/etc/postfix/valias.txt dovecot_destination_recipient_limit = 1 virtual_transport = dovecot smtpd_sasl_auth_enable = yes smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks permit_sasl_authenticated reject_unauth_destination smtpd_sasl_authenticated_header = yes broken_sasl_auth_clients = yes smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot smtpd_sasl_path = private/auth

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[Dovecot] Another Assertion Failure in Current CVS Version
by Todd Burroughs 28 Dec '05

28 Dec '05

This is in the CVS version as of Dec. 12. A user got a few of these: dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:29 Error: 23648 imap(username): mbox sync: UID inserted in the middle of mailbox /mailhome/new/s/h/username/DONE (1591 > 19, seq=19, idx_msgs=1593) dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:33 Error: 23648 imap(username): file mbox-sync-rewrite.c: line 106 (mbox_sync_headers_add_space): assertion failed: (start_pos < data_size) dovecot: Dec 14 15:10:40 Error: child 23648 (imap) killed with signal 6 (gdb) bt full #0 0xffffe410 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #1 0xbffff348 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #2 0x00000006 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #3 0x00005c60 in ?? () No symbol table info available. #4 0xb7ef1d41 in raise () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #5 0xb7ef3529 in abort () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 No symbol table info available. #6 0x080a17ba in i_internal_panic_handler ( fmt=0x6 <Address 0x6 out of bounds>, args=0x5c60 <Address 0x5c60 out of bounds>) at failures.c:375 No locals. #7 0x080a1be4 in i_panic ( format=0x80af28c "file %s: line %d (%s): assertion failed: (%s)") at failures.c:173 No locals. #8 0x08074225 in mbox_sync_headers_add_space (ctx=0xbffff6e0, size=4106) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:99 data_size = Variable "data_size" is not available. (gdb) frame 8 #8 0x08074225 in mbox_sync_headers_add_space (ctx=0xbffff6e0, size=4106) at mbox-sync-rewrite.c:99 99 start_pos = ctx->hdr_pos[MBOX_HDR_X_KEYWORDS] != (size_t)-1 ? (gdb) p start_pos Variable "start_pos" is not available. (gdb) p data_size Variable "data_size" is not available. (gdb) p ctx->hdr_pos[MBOX_HDR_X_KEYWORDS] $1 = 1344 (gdb) p *ctx->header $2 = {data = 0x810d2a0, used = 1395}

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[Dovecot] Wiki Documentation: missing item
by Luigi Rosa 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

In the "MainConfig" section of the online documentation (http://wiki.dovecot.org/) one item in the "logging" section is missing. The missing item is "syslog_facility" described in the dovecot-example.conf file. Ciao, luigi -- +--[Luigi Rosa]--

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[Dovecot] Migrating from Courier-IMAP to Dovecot
by Andreas Mimz 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

Hi! I'm currently trying to migrate from courier-imapd to dovecot... Unfortunately I'm experiences some difficulties here... Since I don't want any user to notice the change of the server backend I've tried changing the namespace in dovecot.conf to namespace private { separator = . location = maildir:~/Maildir prefix = INBOX. inbox = yes hidden = no } With this setting almost everything works fine! Almost... ;-) Squirrelmail won't show 'INBOX' on the left side of the folder tree... If I configure dovecot without the 'INBOX.' prefix it works fine in Squirrelmail, except that all other eMail clients show all sub-folders as a sub-folder of root and not the inbox... root \- inbox \- sent \- trash \- drafts \- private \- spam instead of root \- inbox | \- sent | \- trash | \- drafts | \- private | \- spam any Idea what could be wrong? I've read the wiki about the courier-migration and also tried the conversion script ... but something is wrong I'm afraid... thanks in advance, Andreas

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[Dovecot] dovecot behaving badly after upgrade..
by daniel petre 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

i upgraded dovecot from 0.99 to the last version and it doesnt seem to work anymore.. im using vpopmail userdb and i get this in the logs : dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 1 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.x.x.x rip=81.x.x.x resp= dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client out: CONT 1 dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): client in: CONT 1 AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMucm8AcG9jcG9j dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Error: auth(default): vmysql: sql error[3]: MySQL server has gone away dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:08 Info: auth(default): vpopmail(dani(a)domain,81.x.x.x): unknown user dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:09 Info: auth(default): client out: FAIL 1 user=dani@domain dovecot: Dec 18 03:42:09 Info: auth(default): client in: AUTH 2 PLAIN service=POP3 lip=81.x.x.x rip=81.x.x.x resp=AGRhbmlAbGludXhzb2x1dGlvbnMucm8AcG9jcG9j anyone encountered this? mysql is not away, i edited dovecot.conf carefully. what am i missing? thanks -- Daniel Petre System Administrator Tech Support Coordinator ............................................................................. RCS & RDS Pitesti Tel.: +40348.400.401 Fax: +40348.400.441 http://www.rcs-rds.ro ............................................................................. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not in the addresses indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not copy or deliver this message to anyone. In such a case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply e-mail.

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[Dovecot] inbox problems when moving from server to server
by Eric S. Johansson 27 Dec '05

27 Dec '05

this is probably an FAQ but I moved all the mailboxes from a gentoo server to an ubuntu one and all old inbox messages "disappeared" for. New messages appear and can be read, deleted etc. the old messages can still be found in the Maildir/cur directory like they were on the old mail server. Ownership was changed to user:user and is 600 permissions. Dovecot version: 0.99.14-1ubuntu1 all other mailboxes are fine, all messages visible as far as we can tell. ideas?

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[Dovecot] dovecot and virtual mailbox - suggestions please
by David Bain 26 Dec '05

26 Dec '05

I've setup postfix to delivered my mail to a maildir located at /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/mydomain.com/myuser My postgresql database called 'mails' has a user table setup as follows: CREATE TABLE users ( userid VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL, password VARCHAR(128), realname VARCHAR(128), uid INTEGER NOT NULL, gid INTEGER NOT NULL, home VARCHAR(128), mail VARCHAR(255), PRIMARY KEY (userid) ); What would the query look like in my dovecot-pgsql.conf file to retrieve the appropriate INBOX information? mine currently looks like this. user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' The user authenticates fine via pop, yet I keeping getting the following error. -*ERR No INBOX for user*

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[Dovecot] Dovecot 1.0alpha imap uid store command response
by Tomas Kuliavas 25 Dec '05

25 Dec '05

Hi, Dovecot 1.0alpha (tested 0.99.14, 1.0alpha1, 1.0alpha4 and 1.0alpha5) does not return UID number in 'UID STORE uid-number +FLAGS (\Seen)' command response. Issue is not present in 0.99.14. >From IMAP RFC http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3501.txt 6.4.8. UID Command ... However, server implementations MUST implicitly include the UID message data item as part of any FETCH response caused by a UID command, regardless of whether a UID was specified as a message data item to the FETCH. ... Could you fix your IMAP server? -- Tomas

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[Dovecot] dovecot - postgresql ERR No INBOX for user.
by David Bain 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

I've setup dovecot to authenticate against postgresql. But I consistently get a "No INBOX for user" error when I try to do pop requests. Any pointers would be helpful. Postfix deposits mails in maildirs in the format /var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/{domain}/{username}/ below is the result of a telnet test (altered slightly of course, but gives the idea) telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. +OK dovecot ready. USER personx(a)myxdomxain.net +OK PASS herexxxx +OK Logged in. -ERR No INBOX for user. Connection closed by foreign host. here is my dovecot.conf file /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf =================== ## Dovecot 1.0 configuration file protocols = imap imaps pop3 # "host:port". imap_listen = * pop3_listen = * login = imap login = pop3 # to make sure that users ca here is my dovecot-pgsql.conf file default_mail_env = maildir:/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/%lu/%u/Maildir # Authentication process name. auth = default auth_user = root auth_userdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf auth_passdb = pgsql /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf /etc/dovecot-pgsql.conf ==================== connect = host=localhost dbname=mails user=xxxxxxname password=xxxxxxx default_pass_scheme = PLAIN password_query = SELECT password FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' user_query = SELECT '/var/spool/virtual_mailboxes/'||home AS home, uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u' #user_query = SELECT '/%n' as home,uid, gid FROM users WHERE userid = '%u'

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[Dovecot] Corrupted transaction log file
by Will Ling 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Hi, I am new to dovecot and have just got it up and running on mandrake 8.2. Dovecot seems to be running OK, I can telnet in and log in and Mail on OS X will get the folder list but if a client selects a mail box I get an error back. I cannot find any help anywhere on the errors I'm getting so I hope this is the right place to ask. Please see the log file below. Any clues to the problem would be greatly appreciated. This was after an attempted login from Mail then another try using Mutt locally: dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:44 Info: Dovecot v1.0.alpha5 starting up dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip =10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/test/dovecot.index.log: record size too small (type=0x20, offse t=24, size=0) dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/test/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:51 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/test/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too large (type=0x20, offs et=24, size=201326616, end=48) dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip =10.0.128.58, lip=10.0.128.55 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:17:56 Error: imap(will): Lost transaction log file /home/will /mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log seq 2 dovecot: Dec 24 16:18:46 Error: imap(will): Corrupted transaction log file /home /will/mail/.imap/INBOX/dovecot.index.log: record size too large (type=0x20, offs et=24, size=603979800, end=48) dovecot: Dec 24 16:18:46 Info: imap-login: Login: user=<will>, method=PLAIN, rip =127.0.0.1, lip=127.0.0.will1, secured Regards, Will -- Will Ling

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[Dovecot] PATCH: Dovecot SASL authentication for Postfix 2.3-20051220
by Timo Sirainen 24 Dec '05

24 Dec '05

Tested with PLAIN authentication. Doesn't require any external libraries. Building: make makefiles CCARGS="-DUSE_SASL_AUTH" If you want Cyrus SASL support also (eg. for SASL client), just follow SASL_README instructions normally. main.cf: smtpd_sasl_type = dovecot # non-chrooted smtpd: #smtpd_sasl_path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth # chrooted smtpd: smtpd_sasl_path = /private/auth dovecot.conf: auth default { .. socket listen { client { path = /var/spool/postfix/private/auth mode = 0666 } } }

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[Dovecot] Re: PATCH: Dovecot SASL authentication for Postfix 2.3-20051220
by wietse＠porcupine.org 23 Dec '05

23 Dec '05

I'm adding the finishing touch to the Postfix Dovecot plug-in, to be released with snapshot 20051223. The plug-in code quality is generally very good. I had two observations, both of minor importance: - The authentication server protocol uses the TAB character as a delimiter, so it is critical that legitimate user names don't contain this character. This is of course trivial to ensure with the authentication server implementation, so I will not worry about it. - I noticed that the plug-in did not satisfy one Postfix principle, namely that operations be bounded in time. I added a time limit for connect, read and write operations. Postfix will time-bound all operations anyway, but the diagnostics of the watchdog timer are less specific and therefore less useful. Wietse

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